The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 64

‘But,’ says the Black Thief, ‘I was within one moment of my death, and I am here yet.’

Who acts: Black Thief, I, my · What happens: say, be, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Black Thief, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 says	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Thief	det
7	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Thief	compound
8	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 moment	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 moment	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 moment	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 moment	cop
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 moment	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 moment	nummod
15	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Thief	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 death	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 death	nmod:poss
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 moment	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 here	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 here	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 here	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 here	cop
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	ccomp
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 here	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Black Thief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I	within one moment	of my death	tree rules
3	is	present	I	yet	here property	tree rules
4	die		my			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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